An Update on Rising Mortality Rates Among White, Working-Class Americans

Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton and his fellow Princeton University professor and wife, Anne Case, made headlines two years ago when they reported that mortality rates among white, working-class Americans are going up in contrast to other demographic groups in the U.S.

Since then, the two have continued to dig into what is behind the increase in “deaths of despair” among white, middle-aged Americans with low levels of education.